The title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.

11 July 2007

Wordless Wednesday - Memorial

This week's Wordless Wednesday entry is the Fleet Air Arm memorial (the Royal Navy's aviation arm) near the Houses of Parliament in London. It is one of the most unusual war memorials It is at the same time striking and eerie.

That is amazing. Is it a newer memorial? Reminds me of the Korean War monument in Washington, DC. The figures are on the ground, slightly larger than life, and looking you in the eye or looking right through you. Makes you think hard about war. The sculptors are artists of great passion. Thanks for this photo essay.

About Me

Born Bonaparte O'Coonassa in Corkadoragha where the the torrential rains are more torrential, the squalor more squalid, the hopelessness more utterly hopeless than they are anywhere else. Actually I'm Shaun Downey and I live in Romford which is probably worse (Romford, that is, not my name!)